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Re: Naming font modifications
It is precisely to avoid having existing documents in the standard font infected by a custom version — or vice versa — that we customise the name when we customise the font. There are too many variab…13 -
Re: 656565656
It depends what part of the bottom of the letters I am focused on. If I focus on the relationship of the left side of the 5 to the right side of the 6, then the five looks very slightly lower. If I f…4 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
You're not alone. I suspect it really doesn't matter at all what a font does with U+00AD: whether it includes it as a duplicate of the hyphen glyph, double-encodes the hyphen glyph, or doesn't suppor…1 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
<calt> is discretionary in the sense that matters to Peter, in that it should have UI access in order to turn off the contextual alternates. This is how the feature was registered (what I class…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Very nicely put by E.H. Gombrich in Art and Illusion (1960): ‘The stimulus patterns on the retina are not alone in determining our picture of the visual world. Its messages are modified by what we kn…1
